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The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Finney
This paper reviews methods used for testing the fit of the cumulative form of a negative exponential distribution to the cumulative distribution of forest age-classes. It is shown that existing methods can lead to a greater chance of falsely rejecting the fit of the negative…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Crête, Drolet, Huot, Fortin, Doucet
Diversity of passerine birds and mammals was estimated in well-drained areas located at proximity of the hydroelectric reservoir La Grande-3, where natural fire regime still prevails in the absence of forest exploitation. Forest stands were divided up into four post-fire stages…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Clark, Radke, Coen, Middleton
A good physical understanding of the initiation, propagation, and spread of crown fires remains as elusive goal for fire researchers. Although some data exist that describe the fire spread rate and some qualitative aspects of wildfire behavior, none have revealed the very small…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Chapin, Shaver, Giblin, Nadelhoffer, Laundre
We manipulated light, temperature, and nutrients in moist tussock tundra near Toolik Lake, Alaska to determine how global changes in these parameters might affect community and ecosystem processes. Some of these manipulations altered nutrient availability, growth-form…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Boles, Verbyla
Some AVHRR fire detection studies have excluded pixels that exceeded an arbitrary scan angle. This exclusion seems to be based on the distortion of pixels at high scan angles and the well-documented effects of scan angle on the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index. However,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bunnell
Structure of native vertebrate faunas within 12 different forest types were related to features of the natural fire regime. Relations between faunal structure and fire regime followed patterns expected if faunas were adapted to fire regimes. Proportions of species breeding early…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Brennan, Hardwick
In recent years, there has been an influx of new technology for fire planning, suppression, and management efforts. GIS can put accurate information in the hands of those who need it. GeoTechnologies discussed: GIS; Remote Sensing. Benefits: The combinations of new technologies…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bourgeau-Chavez, Kasischke, Rutherford
Research was conducted to determine the utility of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data for measuring the fuel moisture status of boreal forests as reflected in Fire Weather Index Codes. Three years (May to August 1992-1995) of SAR data from the European Remote Sensing Satellite…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Armstrong
The annual area burned on an 8.6 x 106 ha study area in the boreal mixedwood forest of northeastern Alberta, Canada, was characterized as a serially independent random draw from a lognormal distribution. This characterization was applied in Monte Carlo simulations, which showed…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Driscoll, Arocena, Massicotte
Forest fires are known to influence nutrient cycling, particularly soil nitrogen (N), as well as plant succession in northern forest ecosystems. However, few studies have addressed the dynamics of soil N and its relationship to vegetation composition after fire in these forests…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Acea, Carballas
Microorganisms in heated (200ºC, 1 h) soil not inoculated (H) or inoculated with 0.5% of fresh soil (Hi) and amended with wheat straw (Hi+WS) or poultry manure (Hi+PM) were determined during a 3-month soil incubation. Heating completely sterilised the soil, although the normal…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Guggenheim
Description not entered.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Mead
Vegetation phytomass tables are presented for the Tanana River basin. Average phytomass for each species of tree, shrub, grass, forb, lichen, and moss in 13 forest and 30 nonforest vegetation types is shown. These data combined with area estimates for each vegetation type…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Nalder, Wein
We examined the long-term dynamics of upland boreal forest floors after disturbance by fire. We selected two important and contrasting upland tree species, Pinus banksiana (jack pine) and Populus tremuloides (trembling aspen), in three distinct climatic zones across the boreal…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Kasischke, Christensen, Stocks
Fire strongly influences carbon cycling and storage in boreal forests. In the near-term, if global warming occurs, the frequency and intensity of fires in boreal forests are likely to increase significantly. A sensitivity analysis on the relationship between fire and carbon…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Mitchell, Chapin, Sandberg, Roessler, Fukuda, Hinzman
Frostfire prescribed burn project overview and plan.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES